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20 years after Scott Peterson’s conviction, the Laci Peterson murder is revisited in new documentaries

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Laci Peterson , 27 , disappeared from her and Scott Peterson’s Modesto , California , home on Christmas Eve 2002 .

Laci was eight months pregnant with their son, Conner , at the time.

Scott Peterson was convicted of murder in 2004 and sentenced to death.

He was resentenced to life without parole after his death sentence was overturned in 2020 .

The California Supreme Court overturned Scott ’s death penalty sentence in 2020 .

He was resentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

In 2022 , he was denied a new trial after his legal team argued Juror 7 was untruthful and hid details of her personal life.

The Los Angeles Innocence Project took on Scott as a client earlier this year .

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